Inside The $20 Million Plan To Bring UFC 306 To The Sphere | Forbes
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- With billions at stake for its upcoming media rights deal, the Las Vegas-based fight promotion is creating its biggest spectacle yet.
For all the grandeur of the Sphere, with its state-of-the-art, $2.3 billion dome and its 160,000-square-foot screen, Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White’s plan to bring the first sporting event to the entertainment venue came together some seven miles away, on the dusty outskirts of Las Vegas-in a storage closet.
The 55-year-old White says he sets up specialized rooms for all his ventures so he can visualize the information. He wanted to rent an external space and build a replica of the Sphere he could walk through, but his team advised him that spare space inside UFC headquarters would be more budget conscious. Within a week, a closet was cleared out and filled with schematics, renderings and storyboards that would lay out the most extravagant event in UFC history.
Initially, no one at the company, including White, had any idea how expensive it would be to stage a promotion at the 18,600-seat venue. When the CFO at TKO Group Holdings, UFC’s New York City-based parent company, asked what the budget might be for the event, UFC executive vice present and chief content officer Craig Borsari estimated $8 million. In the end, it cost White and Borsari more than $20 million to realize their vision for UFC 306.
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No fight bonuses tonight 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Can't wait to watch the highlights on you tube 😢
streameast
@@MaccTonight slow buffering not worth the time
@@modigabdi503 never once had an issue. stop being broke and get better wifi.
Cant wait to not pay for tbis
Canelo will make more on this entire event and what fighters are paid for ufc ha wow HE IS THE REAL COMBAT SPORTS/ BOXING KING 😅
Awesome!!!!!
2:31, “ Dana White doesn’t care about the cost “, that’s bc the Saudi billionaire funded/paid for the event. DW should pay his fighters more money
Are they not going to use the leds from the inside?
This guy is literally exaggerating about the lighting system. WWE literally does this all the time. During stadium events, there's no need to hang lights from a ceiling.
Wwe hasn’t ever done Sphere Boss man
WWE is nothing compared to this. I worked there and it’s lighting ,etc is mind blowing
Why there’s people who creates a UA-cam channel and repeats what everyone knows already,these people knows nothing until they heard it somewhere else
These videos are very well made.
“Rye-dia season” got an audible “yikes” from me.
😅
Hawk tuah season
the similarity of this meat slapping fighting to raw doggin it makes me think these dudes are not as mad at eachother as theyd like you to think
Tell them to their faces if that’s what you think.
Anger is not required...its an athletic competition.
Lol its a sport. No one actually thinks they are mad at each other
@@robertjamesonmusic yah thats kinda my point, its obvious anger isnt required on profesh fighting
@@devtastic9394 do you have emotions rn cause of my comment? 😛
Brittany Lewis doesn't know anything about the UFC or mma!
10:09pm 9-13-24
What is this
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